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NVIDIA 460.27.04 Linux Beta Driver Has Ray-Tracing, Many Other Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 22:37
Timed with the expanded Vulkan ray-tracing resources available today, NVIDIA has released their first Linux driver beta in the R460 series as the eventual successor to the current 455.xx series...

Vulkan SDK, Tooling, Samples & Developer Guide Updated For Ray-Tracing

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 22:00
Vulkan 1.2.162 was released at the end of November with the ratified Vulkan ray-tracing extension for multi-vendor use. The Khronos Group today is announcing the updated Vulkan SDK, tooling, code samples, and developer guide today with ray-tracing coverage included...

Firefox 84 Rolling Out With WebRender By Default Appearing For Some Linux Setups

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 19:29
For those making use of the Firefox web browser, Mozilla has an early Christmas present with today's release of Firefox 84. Most significant with Firefox 84 is for Linux users that WebRender is finally getting flipped on by default for select system configurations...

"core/entry" Is Exciting For Linux 5.11 With Two Big Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 19:15
While a "core/entry" pull request may not seem that exciting, this time around for the Linux 5.11 kernel there are two prominent additions...

AMDVLK 2020.Q4.6 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Tue, 12/15/2020 - 18:55
AMD has released the newest open-source snapshot of their official AMD Vulkan "AMDVLK" driver for Linux systems...

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